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Thursday, January 24, 2008


January 23, 2008

The Fair Pricing Coalition AIDS Activist Group Reacts to Pricing of
AIDS Drugs
<http://www.poz.com/articles/fpc_aids_drugs_401_13886.shtml>
POZ speaks to pharmaceutical companies and advocates about how the
pricing of AIDS meds impacts the community's ability to access
lifesaving treatment

STD Rates Increasing in Canadian Arctic
<http://www.poz.com/articles/arctic_aids_increase_1_13882.shtml>
New research showing higher-than-normal rates of sexually
transmitted diseases (STDs) in Northern Canada, or the Canadian
Arctic, has some experts concerned about what this may mean for HIV
prevalence in the region, reports The Canadian Press.

Health Experts Consider Shifting AIDS Funds
<http://www.poz.com/articles/shifting_aids_funds_1_13883.shtml>
Some international health experts say it might be a good idea to
shift some of the billions of dollars spent on fighting HIV/AIDS each
year to address basic health problems such as a lack of clean water,
poor family planning or diarrhea, reports the Associated Press (AP).

Abstinence-Plus Programs Shown to Reduce Risky Behavior
<http://www.poz.com/articles/abstinence_plus_hiv_1_13884.shtml>
Sexual education programs that promote sexual abstinence while also
encouraging safe sex, known as abstinence-plus programs, are found to
reduce HIV risk among young people in developed countries, Medical
News Today reports.

Political Unrest Linked to Poor HIV Care
<http://www.poz.com/articles/political_unrest_hiv_care_1_13885.shtml>
In an address to the United Nations executive board, head of the
World Health Organization Margaret Chan said that Kenya's struggle to
fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases is being made
more difficult by post-election political unrest in the East African
country, reports Reuters Africa.


January 23, 2008

Antiretrovirals Significantly Increase Survival in HIV-Positive
Children
<http://www.poz.com/articles/hiv_pediatric_treatment_761_13881.shtml>
HIV-positive children treated with a triple-combination
antiretroviral regimen have a significant survival advantage, compared
with children receiving less effective drug regimens or no
antiretrovirals, according to the authors of a new study published in
the February 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.


January 22, 2008

Stigma From Health Care Providers Toward People With HIV
<http://www.poz.com/articles/761_13880.shtml>
A new study published in AIDS Patient Care and STDs (and reported on
by AIDSmap.com) claims some HIV-positive veterans say they have
experienced discrimination by their doctors.




<http://www.poz.com/articles/hiv_treatment_babies_2141_13764.shtml>
A South African study presented at the 2007 International AIDS
Society Conference in Sydney found that giving HIV meds to positive
infants within their first six to 12 weeks of lifebefore they show
HIV symptomsimproves their survival rate by a whopping 75 percent.
Sadly, this may not have immediate results for most of the 2.3 million
HIV-positive babies born globallymany have no access to HIV meds at
all and still die very early in life. But in the United States the
study reflects a trend thats long been advancing.


*New Drug Approved*

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to
Tibotecs Intelence (etravirine), the first new non-nucleoside reverse
transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) in ten years. Intelence, at a dose of
200 mg twice a day, has been approved specifically for
treatment-experienced HIV-positive patients with resistance to older
NNRTIs and other ARVs.


The Current Issue
<http://www.poz.com/archive/2008_Jan_2141.shtml>

Raw Hide
<http://www.poz.com/articles/dry_skin_aids_2141_13772.shtml>
Survey says: Dry skin afflicts positive people. We say: Soften up.

Girl Talk
<http://www.poz.com/articles/girls_aids_stds_2141_13752.shtml>
Many young HIV-positive women are at risk for other sexually
transmitted infections.

My Generation
<http://www.poz.com/articles/adolescents_living_hiv_2141_13765.shtml>
What about adolescents living with HIV?


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